Click to enlargeVocabulary 2 Testbook
Tests every word in Vocabulary 2.
- 40 word tests in the book
- Tests every item in its course book the way the exam does
- Full answer key, independently re-checked question by question
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How this book is used in our course
English books are worked in short daily sessions rather than one long sitting. For vocabulary, the child covers the meaning, says it aloud, then checks; words that are missed go on a card for the week. For comprehension and cloze, the child attempts the passage under a loose time, then marks against the key and rewrites any answer that lost marks.
Where it sits in the series
- Previous book in the series: Book 8, Vocabulary 2
- Next book in the series: Book 10, English Rules 2
What's inside English Mastery 9
Four real pages from the book, so you can see exactly what your child will work from. All 9 sample pages are in the viewer.
Forty word tests covering all 992 words of Vocabulary 2, with a Mixed Review after every five.
The same structure as the Vocabulary 1 Testbook, so a child who used that one needs no new instructions: about 24 words per test, in the course book’s order, and a Mixed Review every five tests that re-tests the same words with different synonyms and antonyms. The words are harder; the method is identical.
ABERRANT: unachievable, normal, roomy, abnormal. The antonym sits beside the answer, as it does in the exam.
Abate, abbreviate, aberrant, abhor, abominable, abstain, abundant, acquiesce. Eight synonym questions, eight antonym questions, four options each, and in every one a wrong answer that is the opposite of the right one. A child who learnt the Baby word (abhor: hate) picks despise without a second look; a child who half-learnt it hesitates between despise and love.
Mediocre, perpetuate, pensive, pernickety, omen, opaque, notorious: the scholarship list, re-tested.
"Which word is closest in meaning to PENSIVE? Thoughtless, irrational, reflective, big-headed." "Which word is most opposite in meaning to NOTORIOUS? Disreputable, happy, upright, esteemed." Same and opposite questions are mixed in one test, exactly as an independent school paper mixes them, so a child has to read the question, not just the word in capitals.
Every answer, letter and word, for forty tests and eight reviews.
Laid out four to a line so a child can mark their own test in under two minutes, fill in the scorecard, and take the wrong words back to the course book the same evening. Attempt 2 is two or three days later, wrong questions only; attempt 3 a week after that.
All 40 word tests in the book follow the pattern shown here.
Other Year 4 books in English Mastery
Vocabulary 1
The first word list: each word with a child-friendly meaning, synonyms, antonyms and a sentence.
Vocabulary 1 Testbook
Tests every word in Vocabulary 1 the way the exam does.
English Rules 1
Grammar and punctuation rules taught one at a time, with examples a child can copy.
Vocabulary 2
992 words in 25 alphabetical sets, with meanings, synonyms, antonyms and sentences.